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  2. CONFSERVER-51846

Support synchrony to run as a standalone service in Confluence DC on Windows

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      Problem Definition

      Confluence Data Center requires running synchrony in a separate cluster. Synchrony is a Java application, but doesn't implement ServiceMain, so it can't be run as a Windows service natively.

      Therefore, Synchrony cannot be run out of the box as a Windows service and requires manually starting and stopping via the start-synchrony.bat and stop-synchrony.bat scripts.

      There is a note in Configuring Synchrony For Data Center regarding this issue:

      It's currently not possible to run Synchrony as a service on Windows.

      Synchrony does support running as a linux service, natively:

      Suggested Solution

      Provide out-of-the-box ability to run Synchrony as a Windows service for Enterprise customers.

      Why this is important

      1. Enterprise customers cannot rely on manually running scripts or developing their own service scripts to run Synchrony.
      2. Windows is a supported platform for Confluence Data Center.

      Workaround

      1. Run just Synchrony on a linux node (assuming the rest of the cluster is on Windows) using the instructions linked above.
      2. Use 3rd party tools to run Synchrony on Windows

            [CONFSERVER-51846] Support synchrony to run as a standalone service in Confluence DC on Windows

            Katie_R added a comment - - edited

            My team is made up of multiple developers and as such, we could definitely benefit from Collaborative Editing. Otherwise, we run the risk of accidentally removing others' work unintentionally which is a major problem. Please consider fixing this in Data Center.

            Katie_R added a comment - - edited My team is made up of multiple developers and as such, we could definitely benefit from Collaborative Editing. Otherwise, we run the risk of accidentally removing others' work unintentionally which is a major problem. Please consider fixing this in Data Center.

            Bjorn Boisschot added a comment -

            Hi,

             

            i agree with the above comment, our customer (financial institution) was quite suprised that it is not possible to run Synchrony as a service on a DataCenter instance (which would normally be an ENTERPRISE solution). This will prevent them from using Collaborative Editing, which is kind of a show-off feature of the latest Confluence versions.

            Bjorn Boisschot added a comment - Hi,   i agree with the above comment, our customer (financial institution) was quite suprised that it is not possible to run Synchrony as a service on a DataCenter instance (which would normally be an ENTERPRISE solution). This will prevent them from using Collaborative Editing, which is kind of a show-off feature of the latest Confluence versions.

            Patrick Lebel added a comment -

            Hi,

            Hope this will be developped soon and release in the next version because it's the major flaw in the Confluence Datacenter solution.

            It look like a small business coded software product when I had to explain that in my department.

             

            Regards.

             

             

            Patrick Lebel added a comment - Hi, Hope this will be developped soon and release in the next version because it's the major flaw in the Confluence Datacenter solution. It look like a small business coded software product when I had to explain that in my department.   Regards.    

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              ashaleev Anton Shaleev
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